This one is just too easy. The billboard is on I-35 south of Burleson, טקסס.
I don’t know the true provenance of this image, but it came my way from Omar Bocanegra via Mike Quinn on the Texas Lepidoptera list-serv.
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I stumbled upon (not on stumbleupon) these colored SEM images on the Telegraph webpage today. I especially love this image of a Calliphoridae larva (Protophormia sp.) that seems more out of a C-rated science fiction movie than nature. It reminds me of both a freakish Star Wars character and a Muppet at the same . . . → קראו עוד: Muppet Monsters שתף את זה!Here is a hill-topping male Papilio zeliacon, or Anise swallowtail. This butterfly is widespread in the western Pacific states and is probably much more common than it once was. After the introduction of fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), and subsequent escape from horticulture, the anise swallowtail took hold as a common California butterfly. Perhaps before this . . . → קראו עוד: Butterfly Porn שתף את זה!מעל בMyrmecos אלכס Wild רק הביא לתשומת לבי ולא התקפה אישית מזוג סנטורים הרפובליקניים (טום קובורן, R-אוקלהומה., וג'ון מקיין, R-אריזונה). שוב התחלתי להגיב, אבל בהתחשב בכמה קרוב לבית זה פוגע, הרגשתי התקפה חריפה עוד נשימה מתקרבת… כנראה, התפקיד שלי הוא בזבוז ענק . . . → קראו עוד: כן, רפובליקאים שונאים אותי יותר מדי. שתף את זה! תגובות סגורות  אנטומולוגיה, ספקנות  אנטומולוגיה, טענות מופרכות לוגיות, כלי תקשורת, פסאודו, רפובליקני, ספקנות Fresh off the desk of the Nature News is a feature pondering a world without mosquitos (or -toes). How is this news? Perhaps there is some new vector control we all need to hear about! ובכן, check out the article from the latest edition of Nature titled “A World Without Mosquitoes“. I originally came . . . → קראו עוד: Pointless news, this time from Nature שתף את זה! 4 הערות - (תגובות סגורות) אנטומולוגיה, ספקנות אנטומולוגיה, בריאות, מלריה, כלי תקשורת, יתושים, ספקנות אישור, maybe not. But I did get a little jealous when I came across this article where I discovered a local San Francisco artist who is charging $60 a pop for “insect spreading classes”. I wonder how many really show up to the monthly class? This just in, Chris Grinter is offering an insect spreading . . . → קראו עוד: I should start charging שתף את זה!Just about time for another volume of Genius of the Press. Who will be first to spot the error here? אמנם, the information section of the california flat rate moving website is not exactly a source of top notch journalism… שתף את זה!Here are a few more images from my recent northern road trip, this time from western Idaho. Right outside the town of New Meadows were fields of flowers thick with life. It was some of the best day collecting I’ve done in years, and fellow road tripper Peter Jump and I discovered this . . . → קראו עוד: This time, with a moth שתף את זה!In eastern Lassen county, on the vast high juniper hills of the California-Nevada border, there are herds of “wild” horses, sheep and cattle. Par for the course, the only flowering plant around was horehound (Marrubium vulgare). Despite the non-native flora and (semi)mega-fauna, the insects were still at home. Being the only nectar source, the small . . . → קראו עוד: The only bar in town שתף את זה!A few months ago I was out collecting in western Arizona and failed to follow through with any images or updates on that trip. ובכן, it was a success and well worth the miles to get there! I was searching for a Crambid moth in the mountains of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge (special thanks . . . → קראו עוד: Western Arizona שתף את זה! |
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